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MIT engineers probe spiders' polymer art
10-30-2006 · EurekAlert!A team of MIT engineers has identified two key physical processes that lend spider silk its unrivaled strength and durability, bringing closer to reality the long-sought goal of spinning artificial spider silk.
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- Engineers probe spiders' polymer art
10-30-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
A team of MIT engineers has identified two key physical processes that lend spider silk its unrivaled strength and durability, bringing closer to reality the long-sought goal of spinning artificial spider silk.
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- Co-engineers share designs on clean water
03-05-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
An MIT engineer working toward clean drinking water in Nepal describes in a recent issue of the Journal of International Development how people from developed and developing countries can work together to solve key humanitarian problems.
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- Engineers probe secret of bone's strength
09-06-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
New research at MIT has revealed for the first time the role of bone's atomistic structure in a toughening mechanism that incorporates two theories previously proposed by researchers eager to understand the secret behind the material's lightweight strength.
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- MIT engineer works toward clean water, more
03-05-2007 · EurekAlert!
An MIT engineer working toward clean drinking water in Nepal describes in a recent issue of the Journal of International Development how people from developed and developing countries can work together to solve key humanitarian problems, ultimately meeting the basic human needs for security, broadly defined.
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- Shape-memory polymers designed for biomedical applications
01-03-2008 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing unique shape-memory polymers, which change shape upon heating, to open blocked arteries, probe neurons in the brain and engineer a tougher spine.
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- Transistor technology may power future devices
12-12-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
MIT engineers have demonstrated a technology that could introduce an important new phase of the microelectronics revolution that has already brought us iPods, laptops and much more.
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- New analog circuits could impact consumer electronics
02-16-2007 · EurekAlert!
Advances in digital electronic circuits have prompted the boost in functions and ever- smaller size of such popular consumer goods as digital cameras. But the same cannot be said of the older analog circuits in the same devices, which process natural sights and sounds in the real world. They are draining power and causing other bottlenecks in improved consumer electronic devices. Now MIT engineers have devised new analog circuits they hope will change that.
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- Researchers probe health and safety impacts of nanotechnology
01-30-2007 · EurekAlert!
University of Florida engineering student Maria Palazuelos is working on nanotechnology, but she's not seeking a better sunscreen, tougher golf club or other product -- the focus of many engineers in the field.
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- Engineers' pulsing light silences overactive neurons
03-27-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Scientists at the MIT Media Lab have invented a way to reversibly silence brain cells using pulses of yellow light, offering the prospect of controlling the haywire neuron activity that occurs in diseases such as epilepsy and Parkinson's disease.
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- Engineer launches review of energy use in manufacturing
11-01-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
With a grant from the National Science Foundation, MIT professor of mechanical engineering Timothy G. Gutowski is reviewing energy use in manufacturing processes.
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